First pick
Forêt de Beaugouyen
Wood or forest
30 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
4.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: KIDD E C (GROUP CAPTAIN), No. 233 Squadron RAF · Public domain15%woodland
Outdoors in Plouha · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Plouha is on the coast
No protected area reaches Plouha; the nearest, Tregor Goëlo (Natura 2000), is 2.7 km from the town center. Plouha has 23 km of waymarked hiking routes. 78 km of footpaths cross Plouha (1.9 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Tregor Goëlo, 2.7 km
Woodland
15%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
78 km
1.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
95%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 2.7 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Côtes-d'Armor median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Plouha?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 2.7 km from its center.Protected land nearbyTregor Goëlo (Natura 2000) is 2.7 km from the town center.
What sets Plouha apart: the sea, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Plouha compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
49out of 100
Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
52out of 100
Footpaths1.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
55out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
65out of 100
Green space nearby95%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
13out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plouha has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,601 to 4,668 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tremblade (4.3 km per km²) to Vayres (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 72% | 89% | On it |
| 2 | Auzeville-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 3.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | Ars-sur-Moselle Moselle | 3.7 | 59% | 100% | 327 km |
| 4 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 5 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 6 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 7 | Évin-Malmaison Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 19% | 0% | 80 km |
| 8 | Ascain Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.6 | 20% | 51% | 5.2 km |
| 9 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 10 | Auchy-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 66 km |
| 11 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Auberchicourt Nord | 1.9 | 2% | 0.3% | 97 km |
| 13 | Plouha Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 15% | 0.1% | On it |
| 14 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 15 | Trouville-sur-Mer Calvados | 1.8 | 7.9% | 0.5% | On it |
| 16 | Bar-sur-Aube Aube | 1.5 | 14% | 22% | 309 km |
| 17 | Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 20% | 11% | 343 km |
| 18 | La Fouillouse Loire | 1.3 | 26% | 0% | 217 km |
| 19 | Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu Rhône | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 243 km |
| 20 | Espalion Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 3.6% | 144 km |
| 21 | Neufchâtel-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 17% | 3.7% | 32 km |
| 22 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 23 | Montville Seine-Maritime | 1 | 39% | 0% | 41 km |
| 24 | Soucieu-en-Jarrest Rhône | 1 | 15% | 0% | 240 km |
| 25 | Bouloc Haute-Garonne | 1 | 22% | 0% | 158 km |
| 26 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 27 | Salaise-sur-Sanne Isère | 0.9 | 13% | 9.2% | 207 km |
| 28 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 29 | Les Garennes sur Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 12% | 23% | 121 km |
| 30 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 31 | Bédée Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 32 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 33 | La Bouëxière Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 35% | 0% | 48 km |
| 34 | Hagetmau Landes | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 35 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy Morbihan | 0.4 | 16% | 0% | 26 km |
| 36 | Dompierre-sur-Yon Vendée | 0.4 | 8.7% | 0% | 39 km |
| 37 | Arnas Rhône | 0.4 | 8.7% | 2.2% | 277 km |
| 38 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 36 km |
| 39 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 40 | Soullans Vendée | 0.2 | 5.9% | 51% | 11 km |
| 41 | Vayres Gironde | 0.2 | 2.2% | 11% | 24 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Plouha
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Beaugouyen leads, at 30 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Plouha live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
95% within 800 m5.1% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
PlouhaCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Within 800 m95%
0%50%100%
About 200 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Tregor Goëlo is the nearest protected area, 2.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Tregor Goëlo
2.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Tregor Goëlo
2.7 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Natura 2000 site0.1%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
78 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Plouha
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
78 km
1.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
15%
about 6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlouhaCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.9
Hiking routes0.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlouhaCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 52% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Erquy - Brehec16 km
De Bréhec à Pontrieux10 km
Circuit de la danse macabre9.2 km
Les Trois Chapelles7.5 km
Le Bocage7.5 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Brehec - Keriec, tracé principal3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plouha: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lanleff, 8.4 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 75 | 61 | 66 | 60 | 51 | 46 | 52 | 55 | 86 | 100 | 110 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 110 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Plouha →
Neighbors
Next to Plouha
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Quay-PortrieuxPlouézecBinic-Étables-sur-MerPaimpolPléloPordicPlouha
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plouha | 0.1% | 15% | 1.9 | On it |
| Saint-Quay-Portrieux 3,224 · 7.1 km | 0% | 0% | 4.1 | On it |
| Plouézec 3,147 · 8.3 km | 6.7% | 16% | 1.3 | On it |
| Binic-Étables-sur-Mer 7,041 · 10 km | 0% | 7.5% | 3.3 | On it |
| Paimpol 7,341 · 14 km | 12% | 12% | 1.9 | On it |
| Plélo 3,344 · 14 km | 0% | 11% | 0.4 | 9.2 km |
| Pordic 7,454 · 15 km | 0% | 8.1% | 1.2 | On it |
Paimpol has at least twice as much protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Plouha
Is Plouha in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Tregor Goëlo, 2.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Plouha?
OpenStreetMap maps 78 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plouha is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plouha near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.7 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Plouha?
May to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.